The plaintiffs all alleged mistreatment by various officers during the protests that included, but was not limited to, the use of flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, tear gas, wooden bullets and ...

Wooden bullets seem like they shouldn’t exist in 2020, but they do, and pose similar threats to that of rubber bullets with the additional possibility of splinters and resultant infections.

By the 1960s, riot control police in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong were using more sophisticated wooden bullets. (Wooden bullets still in use today are called “knee-knockers.”) ...